Kali Murray
Biography
Professor Kali Murray is a Professor of Law at Marquette University Law School. Professor Murray's research agenda is focused on how to develop "practices of democracy" in intellectual property, administrative, and property law.
In intellectual property law, Professor Murray is interested the development of "the public law of intellectual property" in its institutional design as well as its historical formation. In its institutional design, she is interested in the politics of participation in patent law. Among her works, she has published a book, The Politics of Patent Law: Crafting the Participatory Patent Bargain, which analyzes the participatory toolbox in intellectual property design. In its historical formation, she has used socio-cultural method to explore the historical development of intellectual property as situated against despotic information and emancipatory information. In this vien, she has recently published Seeing the Dead: Marks, Meaning and the Haunting of American Trademark Law, 103 Tex. Law. Rev. 1499 (2025).
In administrative law, Prof. Murray has focused on how administrative law can successfully structure information exchange between administrative actors and the regulated communities, as well as addressing social and political vulnerabilities of citizens. An exemplary work in this vein Infrostructure(s), 71 Buffalo Law Review 625 (2023) focuses on how public rights in information are constructed. She is currently writing Infrostructure(s): The Great (W)reckoning, on the current political environment surrounding the public law of information.
In property law, Professor Murray is interested in the impact of social identities such as race, gender, citizenship and disability on the development of property and intellectual property law. She is the lead co-author on Integrating Spaces: Property Law and Social Identity (https://aspenpublishing.com/products/integratingspaces-2e), co-authored with Rose Cuison-Villazor, and is co-authoring a casebook, Property and Contest, along with Shelley Saxer, Andrea Boyack, and Jamila Jefferson, for publication in 2025. She has commented extensively in the media on a range of property law issues.
Professor Murray is engaged in significant service to the profession of the law. At Marquette, she is Co-Director of Marquette University Law School's Intellectual Property Program, as well as its Director for International Education. As Co-Director of Intellectual Property Program, Prof. Murray, works along with Prof. Bruce Boyden to serve as Faculty Adviser to the Marquette Intellectual Property Law Review, to mentor students in moot court activities, and to plan the Intellectual Property Colloquium Speaker Series. Within the legal profession, Prof. Murray has worked extensively on diversity and equity issues. Professor Murray has served as Committee Member on the AALS Faculty Workshop on Pre-Tenured Faculty of Color and has served as a chair for the Property Section of the American Association of Law Schools (AALS) and as a member of the Executive Committee of the AALS Intellectual Property Section and the Board of Directors for the Association for Law, Society and Property.
Before coming to Marquette, Professor Murray joined the University of Mississippi School of Law, after engaging in private practice for four years with the law firm of Venable, LLP in Washington, D.C., as a patent litigator with a focus on pharmaceutical patent litigation. Professor Murray also served as a federal judicial clerk for the Honorable Catherine C. Blake of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Maryland in Baltimore, Maryland.
Professor Murray holds a B.A., summa cum laude, and M.A. in History from Johns Hopkins University, where her research focused on the socio-cultural formation of African-American political identity in the early national period. She received her J.D. from Duke University School of Law and was the Spring Symposium Editor for the Duke Environmental Law and Policy Forum.
Shelley Saxer, Andrea Boyack, Jamila Jefferson and Kali Murray, Property and Contest (West 2025)
Kali Murray and Rose-Cuison-Villazor, Integrating Spaces: Cases and Materials on Race and Property Law (Aspen 2023).
Kali Murray, The Politics of Patent Law: Crafting the Participatory Patent Bargain (Routledge 2012)
Alfred Brophy, Alberto Lopez, and Kali Murray, Integrating Spaces: Cases and Materials on Race and Property Law (Wolters Kluwer, November 2011)
Articles
Kali Murray, Seeing the Dead: Marks, Meaning and the Haunting of American Trademark Law, 103 Tex. Law. Rev. 1499 (2025).
Kali Murray, Infrostructure(s): Administering Information, 71 Buff. L. Rev. 625 (2023).
Kali Murray, Trademark Law in the Time of Kulturkampf: The Poirieren Perspective, 47 Seton Hall L. Rev. 717 (2017)
Kali Murray, Constitutional Patent Law: Principles and Institutions, 93 Nebraska L. Rev. 901 (2015)
Kali Murray and Esther Van Zimmeren, Dynamic Patent Governance: The Myriad Example, 19 Cardozo J. Int’l & Comp. L. 287 (2011)
Kali Murray, First Things, First: A Principled Approach to Patent AdministrativeLaw, 42 John Marshall Law Rev. 29 (2009)
Kali Murray, The Cooperation of Many Minds: Domestic Patent Reform in a Heterogeneous Regime, 48 IDEA 289 (2008)
Kali Murray, Rules for Radicals: A Politics of Patent Law, 14 The Journal of Intellectual Property Law 63 (Fall 2006)
Book Chapters
Kali Murray, Justifying the Public Law of Patents, contained within Improving Intellectual Property Law (Eds. Margaret Chon, Susy Frankel, Graeme Dinwoodies, Barbara Lauriat and Jens Schovsbo 2023)
Kali Murray, The Feminist State(s) of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, contained within The Jurisprudential Legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Eds. Ann Bartow and Ryan Vacca 2023).
Kali Murray and Erika George, Association of Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, 569 US 576 (2013), contained within Feminist Law Judgements: Re-Written Property Opinions (Eds. Eloisa-Rodriguez-Dod and Elana Marty-Nelson 2021)
Kali Murray, The Necessary Space of the Doctrinal Classroom, contained within Integrating Doctrine and Diversity: Inclusion and Equity in the Law SchoolClassroom (Ed. Nicole P. Dyszlewski et. al., 2021)
Kali Murray, Serendipity and Care: Researching Social and Cultural History,contained in Researching Property Methods (Eds. Susan Bright and Sarah Blandy, Palgrave MacMillan 2016)
Essays
Kali Murray, Status, Subject and Agency in Innovation, 71 Emory Law Review Online, 38 (2023)
Kali Murray, Charles Reich’s Unruly Administrative State, _ The Yale Journal Forum700 (February 27, 2020).
Kali Murray, A Welcome Conversation: Towards a New Historiography of Intellectual Property, 43(3) Law and Social Inquiry 1113 (2018)
Kali Murray, Policing in Place: A Community Development Strategy?, contained in Symposium: Community Development Law and Economic Justice, 26 Journal Of Affordable Housing 69 (2017)
Kali Murray, Dispossession at the Center in the Property Law, 2 Savannah L. Rev. 201 (2015)
Kali Murray, What is Owed: Obligation’s Relevance in Property and Intellectual Property Theory, 2 Texas A&M Journal of Real Property Theory 275 (2015)
Kali Murray, Competitor Regulation of Sponsored Content in the News Sports Content Media Economy, 25 Marq. Sports L. Rev. 253 (2014)
Kali Murray, Serendipity and Care: Cultural and Social History in Property Law, 3 Property Law Review 195 (2014)
Kali Murray, The America Invents Act of 2011 and the Public Infrostructure of Patents, 2012 WIPO-WTO Colloquium Paper (2013)
Kali Murray, Tangible Mediums of Freedom, Haggerty Museum of Art (Fall 2012)
Kali Murray and Dmitry Vinarov, Rethinking Patent Fraud Enforcement in a Reform Era, 13 Marq. Intell. Prop. L. Rev. 264 (Summer 2009)
Kali Murray, Of Gardens and Streets: A Differentiated Framework of Property in National and International Space Law, 32(2) Journal of Space Law 361 (2006)
Elizabeth C. Shaw and Kali Murray, Introduction, 1999 Symposium: The Nexus Between Environmental Justice and Sustainable Development, IX Duke Environmental Law and Policy Forum 1 (1999)